Undergraduate Campus

Art Exhibit, March 8-10, Stamm

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

9:00-10:30 a.m.

Tearing Down the Walls: Women’s Mobility Throughout History(Council Chamber)
Moderator: Jim Kopp, LC Director of Watzek LibraryAlena Chun, LC student and Symposium co-chair, “Freedom Machines: Women’s Mobility and Bicycles during the Victorian Era”Sarah Hill, LC student, “Change in East German Lesbian Social and Political Culture with the Fall of the Wall”
Susan Ferentinos, Public History Manager, Organization of American Historians, “The Case of the Flapper: Age and Gender in 1920s America”
Laura Dedon, Linfield College student, “’A Smart Woman Can Do Very Well in This Country’: Women, Higher Education and the Northwest Frontier”

12:30-2:00 p.m.

The Modern Working Girl(Council Chamber)
Moderator: Keri Rose, LC ‘05Elizabeth A. Skewes, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder, “The President as Character: The West Wing’s Josiah Bartlet and Commander in Chief’s Mackenzie Allen”Sassafras Lowrey, student, Portland State University, “Stripping the Binary: Explorations in Female-bodied Transgender Sex Work”Rita Jones, Director of Women’s Studies, University of Northern Colorado, “From Women to Mothers: Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything, and Contemporary Young Women” THIS PAPER HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN

Women’s Role in Politics and Why It Matters(Thayer)
Moderstor: Cecilia Chessa, Assistant Professor of Political ScienceLindsey Miller, LC student, “The Interest Group Dynamics Behind the Creation of Domestic Violence Courts”Karen Hooper, LC student, “Gendered Judging: An Analysis of Judicial Decision-Making”Sonia Ahmad, LC student, “Women’s Movements in Egypt and Turkey”Maura Megan Ross, LC student, “The Treatment of Women in High School U.S. History Textbooks”

1:30-2:15 p.m.

Performance: Surgemony II: Segue, by The Gyrl Grip(Foyer near Council Chamber)
A durational performance installation, or “install/action,” utilizing butoh-inspired movement and surgical video footage to explore the rediscovery of intimate touch after a physical and hormonal change.

3:45-5:15 p.m.

Featured Event: Reading by poet and novelist Michelle Tea(Council Chamber)
Followed by a discussion with the author.
Introduced by Becca Norman and Kate Merrill, LC students and Symposium co-chairs

MICHELLE TEA is a poet and novelist whose most recent book is Rent Girl, an illustrated novel (with illustrations by Laurenn McCubbin). Tea’s other works include Valencia (winner of the 2000 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction), The Chelsea Whistle, and The Beautiful: Collected Poems. She has also edited several anthologies, including Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 and Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class. Tea is co-founder of the spoken word performance group Sister Spit.

Body Language(s) in the Classroom: Female Students and Female Teachers(Thayer)
Moderator: Liz Stanhope, LC Assistant Professor of MathematicsSusan Kirtley, LC ‘95, Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, LowellJustine Dymond, Coordinator of Teaching Consultation, Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts, AmherstWendy Bergoffen, Department of English and Women’s Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

Women and the Written Word(Stamm)
Moderator: Mary Szybist, LC Assistant Professor of EnglishEdward Whitley, Assistant Professor of English, Lehigh University, “Elizabeth Porter Gould, Author of Leaves of Grass: Gender, Editing, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace”Kirk Hoppe, Associate Professor of African and World History, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Sex with the Commandant’s Wife: Sexual Degradation and Violence in African Literature”T.J. Boisseau, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s History, University of Akron, “’I would rather see you dead’: Sexual Purity and the Question of the Grandmother in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”Anita Helle, Associate Professor of English, Oregon State University, “’Acetic Acid in a Sealed Tin’: Plath, Photography and the Archive”

Roundtable: Non-Traditional Parenting and Gender Roles(Stamm)
Moderator: Kelli Roesch, LC studentMelissa A. Lemke, student, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “A Review of Research Challenging Arguments against LGB Parents and LGB Adoption”Aubrey Fong, LC student, on being the birth parent of an adopted childMatt Weatherman, on being raised by a lesbian mom and her partnerJoanne Chun, on raising a disabled daughterMichael Hunter-Bernstein, on raising two young sons with his partnerSia Sellu, modern working girl, single mom and “Hip Mama”
Representative from Love Makes a Family

4:00-5:15 p.m.

Good Work, Sister!(Council Chamber)
Screening of digital update of “Good Work, Sister! Women Shipyard Workers of World War II: An Oral History”
Followed by discussion with Sandy Polishuk, Tina McMahon, Sarah Cook, and Barbara Gundle of the Northwest Women’s History Project
Introduced by Jean Ward, LC Professor of Communication

ESTELLE FREEDMAN has taught at Stanford University since 1976 and co-founded the program in Feminist Studies. She is a widely published and influential scholar whose many books include No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women, Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition, and Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, which she co-authored with John D’Emilio. Freedman has received numerous awards for her distinguished teaching, including the Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award, conferred by the American Historical Association. Her research has been supported by a series of grants from such institutions and organizations as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Association of University Women. Professor Freedman holds a B.A. from Barnard College and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

(Mis)Representing Gender and Sexuality in the Media(Council Chamber)
Moderator: Christine Linsley, LC Visiting Assistant Professor of SociologySoniya Deshmukh, LC student, “Gender Portrayal in Television Commercials (A Content Analysis)”Mark Bernhardt, graduate student, University of California, Riverside, “Details of a Murder: Gender, Homicide, and the Relationship between Picture and Text in the New York Press Coverage of the Lizzie Borden Case”Kestryl Lowrey, LC student, “Polywhat?: The Western Conflation of Polygyny and Polyamory”

Workshop: Theatre For Social Change(Stamm) Interactive games and exercises for empowerment and activism. Based on Theatre of the Oppressed.
Facilitated by Tamara Wallace LC ‘01.

Roundtable: From Pioneers to Professionals: Moving Gender Studies from the Academy into Occupational Action(Thayer)
Moderator: Adonica De Vault, LC Director of Career AdvisingKito Alvarez, LC ‘02 and labor organizer for childcare providers, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 925Meg Daly, LC ‘91, author of Surface Tension: Love, Sex, and Politics Between Lesbians and Straight Women, and co-editor of Letters of Intent: Women Cross the Generations to Talk about Family, Work, Sex, Love and the Future of FeminismSerena Cruz Walsh, LC ‘89 and Multnomah County commissionerStephanie Reynolds, LC ‘89, crime prevention specialist, and former director of WomenStrength

5:30-7:00 p.m.

Alumni Reception(Stamm)

7:30 p.m.

Featured Event: Performance by DIYAA, aka DRED (Council Chamber)
With opening performance by Plasmic Stallion from the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls
Introduced by Alena Chun and Katrina Light, LC students and Symposium co-chairs

DIYAA aka DRED, is an artist, lecturer, educator, yoga teacher, and healer who has traveled the world using her work as an educational and healing tool. She inspires people to think about, experience, embrace, and appreciate the diversity and freedom of individual expression—not just in others, but also in themselves. Although DIYAA has been called the female Eddie Murphy, and the black Lily Tomlin, she is in a league all her own. She has appeared in feature and independent films, as well as on HBO, MTV, and the Oxygen Network. Website: www.dredking.net Phone: 212-946-4475

Sponsors: Associated Students of Lewis & Clark College and Lewis & Clark’s Gender Studies Program

Lewis & Clark College adheres to a nondiscriminatory policy with respect to employment, enrollment, and program. The College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap or disability, sexual orientation, or marital status and has a firm commitment to promote the letter and the spirit of all equal opportunity and civil rights laws.